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FCBD 2024–The Valiants
Valiant Comics/Alien Books (May, 2024)
EDITOR: Lysa Hawkins
“The Valiants”
STORY: Lysa Hawkins & Ryan Cady
WRITER: Ryan Cady
ARTIST: Al Barrionuevo
LETTERER: Ezequiel Inverni
“The Void”
WRITER: AJ Ampadu
ARTIST: Emilio Correa
LETTERER: Yasmin Govoni
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I think he’s being too hard on Speedy Gonzales and Pepe Le Pew. Sadly I have to agree with him on the Dick Tracy cartoon that turned Tracy into a dispatcher for a bunch of ethnic stereotypes law enforcers who somehow fight a city mob around the world. You really are better off if you never saw it. I wish he had asked about animated movies. I know the closest the other two MeTV channels get to movies is Svengoolie but it would be nice to see animated movies on TV, especially the ones I can’t find on ad-sponsored streaming.
Two chapters left to go. Last time Kirk lived because of course he did. Anything else would be a spoiler and I don’t do that on the intro because that ends up on the homepage and I won’t ruin it for the random visitors. If you clicked on the article directly I’m assuming you’ve been following my reviews or read the book on your own at some point, and even then I keep spoilers to what’s necessary to discuss the book. We encourage reading around these parts.
With two chapters left, and the last one most likely the wrap-up and good-byes part, which won’t have any real good-byes because the sequel book that came out a few novels later takes place right after these events if memory serves, this has to be the part where the killer is finally revealed to all, though by now I think we all guessed who it is. Not much left to say so let’s see I’m right or if the author snuck a M. Night style twist in there.
Oh, yeah, we still left this guy on the moon. Get back to it, reading order guide!
ULTRA-Monthly #2
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1993)
ULTRA-Monthly is not actually a comic book. It’s a fake newsmagazine following events in the Ultraverse published supposedly within the Ultraverse, a way to help promote the Ultraverse comics to readers. Normally I’d move on, but until I read it I didn’t it wasn’t a comic, and the next item in the reading order guide I’m using is actually a direct-to-video movie we’ll be talking a look at on this week’s Saturday Night Showcase if the post I found is still active, as it leads into the next comic according to the guide.
So that leave me stuck going over this. Does it compliment the comics or is it only worth tracking down for a completist? I won’t go over all the contributors, just the articles.
As I go over in this week’s Clutter Report, I’ve been distracted all week with the cord cutting process, as we cut ties with cable/satellite altogether and go with ad-sponsored streamers. I do have a partially finished Jake & Leon but didn’t feel like half-assing it, so you’ll see it next week if something else doesn’t go wrong.
Tomorrow my dad ends our satellite TV service, so I should be able to get back to work as I won’t have to try to fit in a bunch of movies and still enjoy them. I did manage to bank a bunch of Finally Watched articles for the future, but this week I want to get back to normal operations…for a change this year. I have one partially done article and one I actually took notes on, plus if it’s still being offered on the free side I want to review the first episode of Batman: Caped Crusader to see if it matches my hopes or my fears. (Day later update: “episode 0” was just the trailer, not an actual episode.) Of course there’s the Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders as that book is two chapters away from being done. That means most likely in two weeks the chapter reviews will be done, the book report will pop up at The Clutter Reports, and the next book has been chosen…though after the first one I’m not sure I’m ready for the sequel. We’ll see how that works out.
Have a great week, everyone.
I hate trying to embed from the Internet Archive. In order to make it easier for you to see the video embed properly I have to lose the sidebar, which is part of site promotion, or I have to sit here all day messing with settings until I can get it to work. I don’t have time to mess with settings. So sucks to be me, as usual.
Mazinger Z is a 1970s Super Robot series from Japan. Aliens invade the Earth with giant monsters, one of the aliens is half man, half woman right down the middle like an old school carnival sideshow for some reason, and it’s up to teenagers to pilot giant robots and save the world because Japan.
In the 1980s, we Americans got Tranzor Z, a rework of the show to I’m guessing tone the violence down a bit and change cultural references to match what US kids expected. Before you get all mad, the anime itself toned itself down from what Go Nagai put in the original manga. In other words it had a lot more nudity. If that excites you I have two rather big volumes untranslated for sale over at The Clutter Reports.
I couldn’t find a decent copy of the original, and I usually like to have them both up for comparison and for the sake of the sub only crowd or those who prefer original to “hack dubs”, but that’s not in the cards tonight. Here is the first episode of the version I grew up with, though. Enjoy anyway and you can find the full series of this version at the Internet Archive.
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